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Release date

January 20, 2022

Publisher

Raiz Media S.L.

Website

http://www.raiznewmedia.com/othersight/

A museum in Madrid, a back alley from Tokyo, a famous street in Havana... You will enjoy the real approach of traveling in VR. Discover amazing places around the world captured in breathtaking quality through scanning methods.

Be amazed by each place, walk through it, interact with the environment and immerse yourself in the ultimate VR travel experience. You'll be there!

The list of available places will be updated soon.

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Meta Quest

Meta Quest 2

Meta Quest Pro

Meta Quest 3

Meta Quest 3S

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3.25

96 ratings

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Visit the world

It's kinda cool to be able to visit a museum or a church somewhere in the world without the need to get out of the house. The world of photogrammetry is pretty great to create things like these in VR (Also been working with it at university) and I know it's definitely not an easy job to get every texture in the correct way. Ofcourse you can see there are some rough edges that could have been done a bit better. But it all depends on the location I guess. The church for example looks awesome, the Havana street didn't really impress me...It did feel a bit empty. But the clothes.....wow. How the fabric moves and flows. Just impressing! Great job on that! I do miss haptics when you touch something. It would have been a nice extra. For now it's only 4 locations but each location has a guide that tells you about the places you visit, so it almost feels like a real trip to the museum. Hopefully we'll see some more locations added to the experience.... because for now it's kinda short. Looks great for what it is at the moment....but because of the lack in locations I'll give it 4* for now. Preferably I'd love to see some more indoor locations like other museums or something like the inside of a casa in Seville for example.

280 found this helpful

well-made with excellent photogrammetry

I wanted to give it 4 stars, because it's very well made and offers really interesting, off-the-beaten-track locations and information, but currently, you can only visit 4 spots. Brink offers 3 times as much, and although the developers of OtherSight are promising that "more locations will come" (I sure hope so!), we all know that this promise is often not kept. What's the difference with Brink (besides the number of locations)? First of all, OtherSight wants to show the virtual traveller something other than the very famous tourist locations. It wants to take you to smaller places which are less touristic, but which are very interesting nevertheless. There's a bit more focus on art and culture (while Brink is all about spectacular nature and famous landscapes). The locations are narrated by local people (although you can't really hear them well because while they're talking, it's simultaneously translated in English) and these 'local guides' give you some insight or background information about the spot, or about objects in that spot (other times, it's just text), or about the person that lived/worked there. The visual level of detail is usually impressive, although I saw some parts in (very) low-res (paintings or posters on a wall). But, all in all, I felt very immersed and learned a few new interesting spots and things about it. A good title to show to friends and family, especially when they ask if VR is only for games. ;). Conclusion: a very nice app if you like exploring or if you love art/culture, but currently a high price considering that only 4 spots can be visited.

201 found this helpful

Closest thing to real travel in VR

**Before you start, UPDATE YOUR QUEST. It won't work unless you update.** Used this app for only a short while before quitting to write this review. If your favorite parts of travel are art and culture, you need this app. It feels as though you've wandered away from the big tourist areas to find those local surprises that make the trip. The first location is like visiting a gallery with a private tour, but you can touch stuff, examine it, and not be arrested. Various objects also have audio info, and the graphics are astounding. I love museums, and I'd swear I visited a new one today. After years of the pandemic, it's very welcome. I've tried just the one location so far, but I can only assume they're all filled with as much careful detail. This is a must-have for anyone who misses travel.

67 found this helpful

A nice experience but underwhelming

As others have noted here is a similarity between this and Brink in that they are photogrammetry travel apps. However this one has a distinctly different flavor more along the lines of taking a tour of a place rather than a few point of interest postcards per local. While Brink focuses on the majesty of nature, Other Sight focuses on man made points of interest. This seems to tax the photogrammetry style of the app as the complex items you get up close to really show the low image quality nature of the world you are surrounded in. Unlike Brink which looks really good even when you do get up close to something, Other Sites locals put you up close to things on a regular basis but they have the weird "faux 3d" feel that Apple or Google maps gets when they try to make 3d out of satellite pictures. Everything has a weird low polygon pillow feel to it and the textures up close are almost all slightly off or warped in some way. Other Sight offers a level of interactivity with some of the items in each location but that interaction is often pretty generic. You can pick up some items and look at them, but many aren't interactive at all while some do trigger a voice narration about it. It's fun to be able to pick up random objects but between the generic nature of most of them and the low quality models and textures (beer bottles in Japan looked like they came from Shenmu on Dreamcast) it doesn't add a lot to the experience. Overall I think they are doing a good job with what they have hardware wise but it goes to show how hard it is to get complex up close photogrammetry running on the Quest. I feel 3 stars is fair for people who are interested in this and want the experience more than they care about graphics or quantity (since there are only 4 locations at the moment). I feel it's a little overpriced for it's current content. If they release at least 4 more areas for free then it will justify it's price but as is I say it's more a $10 game.

47 found this helpful

Good but very limited content

There are only 4 sites, I bought it a while back and they were promising more but none have come. The photogrammetry is good, not great (lots of artifacts). It’s cool as a demo but not much more at this point. Blink is a better app for this kind of experience (Blink has it easier as you’re much less likely to notice issues given they stick to outdoors in nature, and they limit your freedom of movement more).

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TVL1977

Visit the world

krisvdvijver

well-made with excellent photogrammetry

Dawn.Monkey.574

Closest thing to real travel in VR

Devedander

A nice experience but underwhelming

geekraver

Good but very limited content

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